Table 3
Child and youth victims of police-reported sexual offences, by age group of victim and census metropolitan areas, 2012

Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims of police-reported sexual offences. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), Age group of victim, 0 to 11 years, 12 to 17 years and 0 to 17 years, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaNote 1, Note 2, Note 3 Age group of victim
0 to 11 years 12 to 17 years 0 to 17 years
number rate number rate number rate
St. John's 7 30 35 299 42 119
Halifax 70 149 101 397 171 236
Moncton 26 152 54 633 80 312
Saint John 22 117 29 274 51 174
Saguenay 73 455 58 645 131 523
Québec 81 92 149 342 230 174
Sherbrooke 52 225 45 364 97 273
Trois-Rivières 32 200 32 355 64 256
Montréal 530 104 707 276 1,237 161
GatineauNote 4 55 125 58 267 113 172
OttawaNote 5 55 45 158 242 213 114
Kingston 42 230 57 572 99 350
Peterborough 30 231 27 344 57 273
TorontoNote 6 427 60 751 202 1,178 109
HamiltonNote 7 82 121 116 300 198 186
St.Catharines-Niagara 79 154 148 481 227 277
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo 80 107 144 372 224 197
Brantford 31 173 36 359 67 240
Guelph 9 55 48 552 57 227
London 60 95 82 235 142 145
Windsor 35 87 77 348 112 180
Barrie 18 63 32 204 50 113
Greater Sudbury 22 113 67 598 89 291
Thunder Bay 18 135 30 382 48 226
Winnipeg 139 129 265 448 404 242
Regina 32 99 59 373 91 188
Saskatoon 57 145 92 450 149 249
Calgary 142 74 201 234 343 124
Edmonton 240 144 345 421 585 236
Kelowna 30 151 34 306 64 206
Abbotsford-Mission 24 91 36 263 60 149
Vancouver 202 71 319 201 521 118
Victoria 42 117 56 281 98 176
Total, census metropolitan areasNote 8 2,954 94 4,631 282 7,585 159
Non-census metropolitan areas 2,579 185 3,891 513 6,470 301
Total, Canada 5,533 122 8,522 355 14,055 205
Note 1.

A census metropolitan area (CMA) consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. To be included in the CMA, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service.

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Note 2.

Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 child and youth population. CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

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Note 3.

The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.

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Note 4.

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA.

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Note 5.

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA.

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Note 6.

Excludes the portions of Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service that police the Toronto CMA.

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Note 7.

Excludes the portion of Halton Regional Police Service that polices the Hamilton CMA.

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Note 8.

Includes Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service. May include a small number of offences that occurred outside of a CMA, as 6% of the population policed by Durham Regional Police Service falls outside the boundaries of a CMA.

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Notes: The sexual offences in this table include aggravated sexual assault (level 3), sexual assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (level 2), sexual assault (level 1), sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, sexual exploitation of a person with a disability, incest, corrupting children, making sexually explicit material available to children, luring a child via a computer, anal intercourse, bestiality (commit/compel/incite), and voyeurism. Includes victims under the age of 18 only. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but miscoded as 0.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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